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Formed in 2012 by Wilson (Evil Puke), Luan (slaughterrazor), and Alex Henrique Rangel, Poison Beer played aggressive old-school thrash drawing heavily from the German scene while weaving in crossover, black, and death metal influences. Their 2013 EP Poisoning the Priest laid out their provocative lyrical obsessions — alcohol, evil, and anti-religious sacrilege — over six short blasts of raw, unpolished thrash.
Poison Blood is a black metal project formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 2017, a collaboration between Jenks Miller (Horseback) and Neill Jameson (Krieg), developed remotely without the two musicians ever having met in person. Their self-titled debut EP (2017) drew explicit inspiration from Beherit's Drawing Down the Moon, channeling raw early black metal through textures that also incorporated deathrock, dungeon synth, and occult imagery. The project represents a concise but pointed statement from two of American underground black metal's more distinctive voices.
Heavy metal band from A Coruna, Spain, formed in 2020, wielding classic heavy metal like a blade from the Galician coast. They bring the spirit of traditional heavy metal to northwestern Spain.
Poison Headache is a crossover thrash trio from San Diego, California, formed in 2010 by Phil Sgrosso (of As I Lay Dying), vocalist Andy Kukta, and drummer Kyle Rosa. Drawing on hardcore, crust, and thrash metal, the band released their self-titled debut through Metal Blade Records in 2016, which was praised for modernizing the crossover template with abrasive intensity and no-frills aggression.
Poison the Preacher is a thrash metal, crossover, and hardcore punk band from Bogotá, Colombia, formed in 2021. The band blends raw hardcore aggression with old-school thrash principles and released their debut full-length "Vs the World" in 2025 through Concreto Records. Their catalog also includes several singles and a split release from 2022–2023.
South Florida's Poison the Well were instrumental in shaping the post-hardcore and metalcore landscape of the early 2000s, with 'The Opposite of December' and 'Tear from the Red' introducing a level of atmospheric sophistication to screamo that few peers could match. Their willingness to evolve — from the chaotic early material to the shoegaze-tinged experimentation of later albums — earned them cult status as one of the genre's most forward-thinking bands.
Poisonblack were a Finnish gothic and groove metal band from Oulu, formed in 1999 as a side project of Sentenced vocalist Ville Laihiala and later becoming his primary outlet after Sentenced disbanded. The band released six studio albums between 2003 and 2012, beginning with the gothic-leaning Escapexstacy before pivoting toward a harder, groove-driven sound under Laihiala's sole vocal direction. After officially disbanding in 2015, the band reunited in 2023 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their debut.
Melodic death and doom metal band from Ankara, Turkey, formed in 2022, crafting dark, melodic metal from the Turkish capital. They bring Scandinavian-influenced melody to the Anatolian underground.
Flagstaff, Arizona's Poisoned Womb arrived in 2025 with the full weight of brutal death metal behind them — guttural vocals, pulverizing low-end, and the kind of technical savagery that high-altitude isolation seems to breed. Fresh but uncompromising, they represent the latest entry in Arizona's quietly growing extreme metal underground.
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